Noise exposure assessment and abatement strategies at an indoor firing range

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 629-636

  Kardous, Chucri A ^a   Willson, Robert D ^b   Hayden, Charles S ^a   Szlapa, Piotr ^c   Murphy, William J ^a   Reeves, Efrem R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b Beta Associates   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Firing Range; Impulse Noise; Noise Abatement; Noise Induced Hearing Loss

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FIREARM; HUMAN; NOISE POLLUTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FIREARMS; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 0041665039     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473220301409     Document Type: Article

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